Test your knowledge of American History at the eighth grade level provided by CNN here.
Now take your turn with an example of a test taken by eighth graders in Kansas during 1895. The Smoky Valley Genealogical Society also provides a link to answers on that same page.
What do students need to know? What do teachers need to learn? Next week, the American Congress is considering the topic again for K-12 students. This informative blog from Education Week outlines the ongoing debates nicely. Costs keep rising, but we cannot put our heads in the sand. No Child Left Behind, in its unexamined consequences, could have put all of our schools out of business. One hundred percent is a nice round number for a quiz grade, but children are not learning objects. I hope we don't shoot ourselves in the collective foot by not thinking about the consequences and building in some opportunities for review and reconsideration. That's the least a thoughtful, well-educated person can do.
I'm off to see CQ/CX a play about the media and plagiarism today. What are you doing for the arts this weekend?
Now take your turn with an example of a test taken by eighth graders in Kansas during 1895. The Smoky Valley Genealogical Society also provides a link to answers on that same page.
What do students need to know? What do teachers need to learn? Next week, the American Congress is considering the topic again for K-12 students. This informative blog from Education Week outlines the ongoing debates nicely. Costs keep rising, but we cannot put our heads in the sand. No Child Left Behind, in its unexamined consequences, could have put all of our schools out of business. One hundred percent is a nice round number for a quiz grade, but children are not learning objects. I hope we don't shoot ourselves in the collective foot by not thinking about the consequences and building in some opportunities for review and reconsideration. That's the least a thoughtful, well-educated person can do.
I'm off to see CQ/CX a play about the media and plagiarism today. What are you doing for the arts this weekend?
